Hassan Yusuf, Palestinian scriptwriter: "Let's speak openly. I think that the Palestinian cause is fundamentally and essentially a Syrian matter, whether we like it or not... Obviously, it is an existential, Arabic, regional matter. Essentially and fundamentally it is a Syrian matter, since it [Palestine] is part of the Levant, Greater Syria."
PA TV host: "You consider Palestine to be southern Syria?"
Hassan Yusuf: "From before 1916 and until now, there are still [conspiracies] concerning this land, Syria, which has effectively been divided, and has had land taken from it here and there. Unfortunately, this strange and foreign entity called Israel was implanted in it [Syria]."